The Resource Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life, Louise Aronson
Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life, Louise Aronson
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- Summary
- "[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. [...] Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy -- a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."" --
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life
- Title
- Elderhood
- Title remainder
- redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life
- Statement of responsibility
- Louise Aronson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. [...] Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy -- a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."" --
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- Aronson, Louise
- Dewey number
- 362.60973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA564.8
- LC item number
- .A76 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Older people
- Aging
- Older people
- Aging
- Older people
- Older people
- United States
- Label
- Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life, Louise Aronson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1052902950
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 449 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620405468
- Lccn
- 2018040491
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1052902950
- Label
- Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life, Louise Aronson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1052902950
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 449 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620405468
- Lccn
- 2018040491
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1052902950
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